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  • Friend of China - The Myth of Rewi Alleyby Anne-Marie Brady

    RoutledgeCurzon 2002; US$ 178.00

    This study is a radical and controversial analysis of the life and works of Rewi Alley utilizing both Chinese materials and previously unpublished materials from western sources. Rather than a biography as such, it is a revisionist history. more...

  • Tibetan Independence Movementby Jane Ardley

    RoutledgeCurzon 2002; US$ 178.00

    The first serious analysis of the Tibetan independence movement, this book is also the first to view the struggle from a comparative perspective, making an overt comparison with the Indian independence movement. more...

  • Lak Changby Yos Santasombat

    Pandanus Books 2001; US$ 28.00

    Translation of of Professor Yos Santasombat's fascinating ethnography of the Tai in Daikong, southwestern China. more...

  • China's Ethnic Minorities and Globalisationby Colin Mackerras

    RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 44.95

    China's fifty-five ethnic minorities form about 9% of the Chinese population, with over 100 million people, and occupy over 60% of China's territory. This book examines the current state of China's ethnic minorities. more...

  • Perspectives On the Yi of Southwest China by Stevan Harrell

    University of California Press 2001; US$ 15.95

    Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, the first scholarly study in a Western language on the Yi in four decades, brings this little-known part of the world to life. more...

  • Chinese Identities, Ethnicity & Cosmopolitanismby Chan Kwok Bun

    Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 44.95

    A study of ethnicity, hybridity and cosmopolitanism among Chinese migrants. Using detailed examples, the author analyzes the issues with new perspectives, identifying flaws in classic sociology and rethinking assumptions about identity and selfhood. more...

  • Empire at the Marginsby Pamela Kyle Crossley; Helen F. Siu; Donald S. Sutton

    University of California Press 2005; US$ 65.00

    Focusing on the Ming (1368-1644) and (especially) the Qing (1364-1912) eras, this book analyzes crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional, and religious identities. The contributors examine the role of the state in a variety of environments on China's "peripheries," paying attention to shifts in law, trade, social stratification, and cultural dialogue. They find that local communities were critical participants in the shaping of their own identities and consciousness as well as the character and behavior of the state. At certain times the state was institutionally definitive, but it could also be symbolic and contingent. They demonstrate how the imperial discourse is many-faceted, rather than a monolithic agent of cultural assimilation. more...

  • Russian Politics in Exileby Felix Patrikeeff

    Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2002; US$ 116.00

    This work explores Russian life in Northern Manchuria during the period of political, economic and social upheaval, leading to its eventual de facto control by Japan, and disruption of the balance of power in the Northeast Asian Region. Presenting a fresh interpretation of the combined impact of the 1929 Sino-Soviet Conflict and the onset of the Great Depression, the book examines the interplay of Soviet and emigré Russian interests in Manchuria, and their role in generating the instability that led to Japanese intervention and Russian decline. more...

  • Pioneers Of Modern Chinaby Lee Khoon Choy

    World Scientific 2005; US$ 113.00

    Amongst the Chinese exists great cultural variety and diversity. The Cantonese care more for profit than face and are good businessmen, whereas Fujian Rén are frank, blunt and outspoken but daring and generous. Beijing Rén are more aristocratic and well-mannered, having stayed in a city ruled by emperors of different dynasties. Shanghai Rén are more enterprising, adventurous and materialistic but less aristocratic, having been at the center of pre-war gangsterism. Hainan Rén are straightforward, blunt and stubborn. Hunan Rén are more warlike and have produced more marshals and generals than any other province. Pioneers of Modern China is a fascinating book that paints a vivid picture of the unique cultural characteristics and behavior of the... more...

  • Ethnicity and Urban Life in Chinaby Xiaowei Zang

    Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 44.95

    Using both qualitative and quantitative data derived from fieldwork in Lanzhou between 2001 and 2004, this much-needed work on ethnicity in Asia offers a major sociological analysis of Hui Muslims in contemporary China. more...